Apparatus for making tufts.



A. ROSENBERG.

APPARATUS FOR MAKING TUFTS. APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 8, 1911. RENEWED AUG. 12, 1912.

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ARMIN ROSENBERG, 0F MIIJVVAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

APPARATUS FOR MAKING TUFTS. I

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 3, 11.913.

Application filed June 8, 1911, Serial No. 631,949. Renewed August 12, 1912. Serial No. 714,709.

T '0 all whom it may concern Beit known that I. ARMIN ROSENBERG, a citizen of the United States, residing at Milwaukee, county of Milwaukee, and State of Visconsin, have invented new anduseful Improvements in Apparatus for Making Tufts, of which the following is a specification. 1

My invention relates to improvements in apparatus for making tufts, pompous and rosettes.

The object of my invention is to provide means for expediting the operation of making a tuft or rosette from thread or yarn.

In the following description, reference is had to the accompanying, drawings, in which- Figure 1 illustrates a revol ng spindle provided with a series of spools upon which the yarn may be wound, said spools being specially formed in order to facilitate the subsequent tying and cutting operations. Fig. 2 is an end view of the preferred form of spool. Fig. 3 is a side view of the spool shown in Fig. 2, as it appears after the cord has been tied and shears inserted on the op posite side of the spool for the purpose of cutting the skein. Fig. 4 is a detail sectional view, showing a modified form of spool. Fig. 5 is a view of the skein as it appears when separated from the spool. Fig. 6 is a view of the completed tuft.

Like parts are identified by the same reference characters throughout the several views.

A spindle 1 is preferably employed and arranged to support a series of spools 2, 3,

and 4, any desired number of spools being employed on one spindle. The preferred form of spool 2 is provided with end flanges 3, and a reduced central portion 4 upon which the thread or yarn is wound. The spool is also provided with a longitudinal .central aperture 5 to receive the spindle.

On one side, an open slot 6 extends outwardly from the aperture 5 through the central portion and also through the end flanges 3' of the spool, this slot being adapted to permit the insertion of a pair of shears with one blade passing underneath the skein and the other blade passing above the skein, as shown in Fig. 3. The other side of the spool substantially opposite that occupied by the slot 6, provided with a groove or recess 7 in the end flanges, which extends inwardiy in the end flanges nearly to the central aperture 5, but leaving a connecting portion 8. This groove 7 may, if desired, extend entirely through the neck or central portion 4 of the spool into the aperture 5, but this is not essential.

In operation, the spool with others, is placed upon the spindle 1, and threads of yarn are connected to the respective spools, whereupon the spindle may be rotated to wind the yarn upon the spools. \Vhen a sutlicient quantity of yarn has been wound upon the respective spools. the latter are preferably removed from the spindle, preparatory to the tying and cutting operations. A needle is then employed to carry a thread through the groove 7 underneath the skein on the side occupied by such groove, and this thread is then tied around the skein, sub stantially as shown in Fig. 3. One blade of a pair of shears is then inserted in the slot 6 underneath the skein, and the skein severed on the side occupied by said slot, after which the threads or yarn may be shaken and combed out to form a circular ball or tuft, as shown in Fig. 6. Vith this apparatus, the skein may be accurately tied and cut and all Waste of thread or yarn avoided.

It is not essential that the slot 6 extend from the outer surface of the spool entirely through the wall of the spool to the central aperture 5. If desired, a groove similar to the groove 7 may be employed and this groove may extend through the central neck 4 of the spool, as illustrated in Fig. 4, but it is not essential that either the groove 7 or the slot 6 extend into the central aperture 5 at any point. the object of having the slot 6 extend into the central aperture being merely to provide additional space for the reception of the shear blade, and the object of having the groove7 extend through the neck into the central aperture 5 being to facilitate the manipulation ofthe needle to draw the tying thread through underneath the skein. The slot 6 and groove 7 constitute channels formed in opposite sides of a spool in the walls of the neck portions and end flanges thereof. and the exact depth of these channels is largely a matter of choice. Where (as in Fig. 3) the shear receiving channel constitutes a slot which wholly severs the spool on one side from its outer surface to the aperture 5, the slot should be made of less transverse diameter than the diameter of said aperture 5, so that the spindle may be retained in the aperture 5. The spindle is either formed to fit the aperture 5 with suflicient frictional pressure to cause the spools to turn with it, or, if desired, said spindle may be formed of a key adapted to engage the spools and prevent them from rotating independently on the spindle.

I claim 1. A device for forming tufts comprising a spool having longitudinal grooves extending from end to end inwardly on opposite sides of the spool to a sufficient depth to allow the passage of a cutting tool on one side and a needle on the other side, underneath a skein of yarn or thread wound upon the central portion of the spool, and a rotative support for the spool adapted to communicate motion thereto, substantially as described.

2. A device for forming tufts consisting in the combination of a rotary spindle and a spool centrally apertured to receive said spindle, each of said spools being provided with longitudinal diametrically opposite channels adapted to pcrmit the passage of a tool in said channels underneath a skeiii of fabric wound upon such spool, one of such channels extending entirely through the wall of the spool on one side of the spindle and forming an open slot adapted to receive the blade of a pair of, shears.

3. A device for forming tufts consisting in the combination of a rotary spindle and a set of spools centrally apertured to receive said spindle, each of said spools being provided with longitudinal diametrically oppositechannels adapted to permit the passa e of a tool in said channels underneath a skein of fabric wound upon such spool, one of said channels extending entirely through the wall of the spool on one side to the spindle receiving aperture and constituting an open slot adapted to receive the blade of a pair of shears.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ARMIN ROSENBERG.

Witnesses LEVERETT C. WHEELER, I. D. BREMER. 

